What was the fastest propeller driven plane of WW2?

Question

It was not the P-51 Mustang. It was a seldom built plane and it did see action.

It was not the P-51 or even an american built plane? It had less then 75 made and came in a one seat and a 2 seat version.

Answer 1

Dornier Arrow(Do-335) of the Luftwaffe

After reading mgreelin's response, i checked his source and it said the Dornier Pfeil(Arrow), at 474MPH, was the fastest prop-driven airplane of the war.
Also, the fastest plane of WWII was not the MiG-13. It was the rocket-powered ME-163Komet(596MPH).

Answer 2

Fastest Propeller Plane

Answer 3

The Focke Wolf Ta-152H was the fastest German fighter. It had a max speed of 475mph and only 64 models were ever made.

The fastest American planes were
P-51H Mustang-487MPH
P-47D Thunderbolt- 430MPH
P-38L Lightning-414MPH

The fastest British planes are
Spitfire (Late models)-448mph
Hurricane-342mph
Tempest-426mph

The fastest PROP plane of the Russians is the MiG-13 also known as the I-250(N) 825 Km/h or 513mph That is faster then the P-51 at 784Km/h making it the fastest prop plane of WWII(I assumed everyone would figure I meant fastest prop plane, That's the question we are answering right.)

Two engines may add horsepower ,but also ADDS A LOT OF DRAG AND WEIGHT, slowing the plane down. The Best Twin engine Fighters are the p-38 and the Mosquito. The rest were too heavy and flew like a BOMBER.

Also Do-335 is slower, 765Km/h vs MiG-13's 825Km/h

Also If you read, HE SAID IT'S NOT AMERICAN.

Answer 4

Fastest Prop Plane

Answer 5

The Dornier DO-335 was capable of a max speed of 474mph at 21,000 feet but this was with the MW 50 boost. Without the boost top speed was 426mph.

The Focke-Wulf Ta-152 could reach speeds of 472 mph at 41,000 feet using the GM-1 (nitrous oxide) boost. However, without the boost top speed was in the 440 mph range at around 34,000 feet.

The P-47M could attain 470-480mph at 28,500 feet in full military power. Running the engine at WEP (War Emergency Power) provided an over-boost, and pilots of the 56th fighter group reported obtaining 500mph in level flight on numerous occasions.

It's a fairly difficult question to answer. If you're talking of level flight at 20,000ft+ altitude with no boost of any sort, just 100% military power then several planes were faster than the DO-335. With artificial boosting methods or running the engine past military power, the P-47M and P-47J were the fastest.

Don't forget, the Do-335 had an advantage, as it was a twin engine plane.

Answer 6

My sources of level flight maximum speeds show the following: Of planes that were deployed in squadron strength in WWII the answer is the North American P51H Mustang with a speed of 487 mph at 25,000 feet, which was deployed in strength in the Pacific late in the war. This eclipses even planes that were issued into service piecemeal near the end of the war, for which the answer is the Dornier DO-335 Pfiel (Arrow) with two in-line Daimler-Benz DB 603a V-12, 1.726 hp engines and a speed of 478 mph at 21,000 feet. The Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat came too late to be deployed in the war but later established a speed record. The Bearcat's strength was not top speed but climb to altitude, a record it held for a very long time even against a number of later jet aircraft. It's maximum speed is listed as 455 mph but a post-war racing version named Rare Bear set a piston-engined speed record of 528.33 mph. If you start talking about dive speed instead of level speed then I understand that planes like the DO-335 and the Spitfire could attain and handle higher dive speeds than the P51 but I do not have sources for those speeds.

Answer 7

P-38, also called Lightning, fighter-interceptor aircraft. The P-38 was produced by the Lockheed Aircraft Company, on a design specification of 1937 calling for a heavily armed fighter that could quickly climb to bomber altitudes of 20,000 feet. Designers Hall Hibbard and Kelly Johnson adopted an unconventional "twin-tailboom" configuration, in which the two engines were mounted outboard on the wings in pods that extended back into tail fins. The fins were connected by a flat tailplane, and the pilot was housed in a short nacelle mounted at midwing. Powered by turbo-supercharged Allison engines (for better performance at high altitudes), the Lightning exceeded 414 miles per hour at 25,000 feet and, in a steep dive, encountered turbulence as it approached the speed of sound.

The P-38 became the principal U.S. fighter escort for medium bombers in Europe, and it was also widely used in the Pacific. Most Lightnings carried a 20-millimetre cannon and four .50-calibre machine guns in the nose. After the P-38 was superseded as a bomber escort (by the P-51), many of the planes were modified as two-seat fighter-bombers and others for photoreconnaissance.

Answer 8

Randy the ME-262 was a jet.

There were several very fast aircraft and the problem was design not power. They were facing the problem of breaking the sound barrier which lead to several spin outs.
I believe the Lightning was the fastest.

Answer 9

P-38

Answer 10

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